EPA grant to fund diesel engine retrofit

ATHENS - The University of Georgia will split a $1.7 million federal stimulus grant with two local governments in a project to retrofit diesel engines to burn cleaner.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that the grant, part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, will enable UGA, Athens-Clarke County and Washington County to install filters on 239 transit buses, fire trucks, earthmovers and other heavy equipment.

Ryan Adolphson, director of the UGA Faculty of Engineering Outreach Service, and Dan Geller, another engineer in the outreach service, wrote the grant application for the governments and the university.

They estimate the retrofits will eliminate more than 100 tons of pollution a year from the vehicles.

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